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What to do? Husband won’t drink enough 6 months after Ivor lewis
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Hi Colleen, thank you for reaching out 🙂 we are managing ok. Kerry has an endoscopy next week by a surgeon in the town we live in. Not his surgeon that performed the Ivor Lewis surgery but one closer. Just having a look to see everything is healing and ok. He is still struggling to gain weight but is feeling ok in himself. We have started walking which I think is helping too. We spoke to Gary on this forum and he was very helpful and we now realise it’s going to take longer than we thought to start and feel somewhat ‘normal’ again. We’re hopefully on the right track. Thanks for the message.
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Hi. New to this group. My husband had his surgery end of January 2025. He is still having problems with weight and drinking. He finds it tough to work in the fluid while trying to eat to gain back some weight. He has also developed a very bad cough which inhibits his intake of food and drink ing. Working with a nutritionist to get him to gain weight. There are many recipes for nourishing and weight gaining shakes as well as getting nutrition from glucerna , a meal supplement or protein shakes. I always check with his doctor and or nutritionist before I start him on something new like glucerna...a meal supplement and protein shakes